Rule Britannia! Here is England's very essence, captured in an anthology of more than 1,500 quotes. Here is an authentically English "parliament of voices" drawn from a wide range of historical and contemporary sources--from Bede to Betjeman, Langland to Larkin--and that encompasses not only traditional English, but also Asian and Afro-Caribbean English of the third millennium. Arranged thematically (questions of identity, a touch of class), the words come from some of England's finest writers. From the patriotic and ...
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Rule Britannia! Here is England's very essence, captured in an anthology of more than 1,500 quotes. Here is an authentically English "parliament of voices" drawn from a wide range of historical and contemporary sources--from Bede to Betjeman, Langland to Larkin--and that encompasses not only traditional English, but also Asian and Afro-Caribbean English of the third millennium. Arranged thematically (questions of identity, a touch of class), the words come from some of England's finest writers. From the patriotic and laudatory to the dissident and choleric, it's richly entertaining.
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New. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 531 p. Audience: General/trade. An unread, (new) book in pictorial wraps; 2003 edition; 8vo., 531 pages
